Cigarette-cartridge and blank for making same.



"Rm-H6339; Patented Dec. l6, I902.

A. LEBLANC.

CIGARETTE CARTRIDGE AND BLANK FOR MAKING SAME.

(Ap nmiqn filed Apr. 9, 1902.)

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. 25 improved cigarette-cartridge.

ALFREDO LEBLANC,

FFI'CE.

PATENT OF HAYANA, CUBA.

CIGARETTE-CARTRIDGE AND BLANK FOR MAKING SAME.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 716,339, dated December16, 1902.

Original application filed June '7, 1901, Serial No. 63,666. Divided andthis application filed April 9, 1902. Serial and useful Improvement inCigarette-Oar tridges and Blanks for Makingthe'Same, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The present invention relates to tobaccosmoking devices; andparticularly it has for its object to provide Whatl call acigarettecartridge. By this I mean a cigarette comprising a filler oftobacco, having a wrapper or casing of stiff non-combustible materialtapering inwardly preferably from the ignition end or from a pointadjacent thereto.

A further object is to provide in such a device means for feeding thetobacco filler through the casing.

I shall now describe my invention, so that others skilled in the art maymanufacture and, use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is alongitudinal section of my Fig. 2 represents a blank sheet of materialfrom which the casing of the cartridge is made.

Referring to the drawings, the blank of comparatively stiffnon-combustible material 0 from which the casing of the cartridge ismade is designated by the reference-numeral 1. This blank is to berolled in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2 and whencompleted hasthe form shown in Fig. Referring to the blank 1, theportion 2 when rolled up constitutes the draft-tube and guide-stem 2 forthe spring 6, which moves the tobacco-filler forward in the casing. Theportion 3 constitutes the springseat 3, (shown in Fig. 1,) and theportion 4 constitutes the body proper, 4, of the casing, while theportion 5 of the blank constitutes the conical tapered end portion 5.The portion 2 may be made of the same width as the portion 3, in whicheventno protruding guidesteam 2'" willbe formed in the cartridge.

The tobacco filler is indicated by the numeral 7. 1

The manner of use of my improved car- (No model.)

tridge will be apparent. As the tobacco is consumed in the act ofsmoking fresh tobacco will be fed forward by the spring 6, thecontracted end 6 of the cartridge acting to retard the free forwardfeeding of the tobacco through the end and permitting suflicient only tobe fed to take the placeof that consumed.

By making the body of the casing preferably outwardly flaring or oftapering form, as shown in the drawings in Fig. l, the propulsionforward of the tobacco by the spring is much more easily effected thanwhere the casing is made of true cylindrical form, and a frequent sourceof annoyance and trouble in the use of such devices is obviated.

I claim-- 1. Acigarette-casingblank havingportions of different widths,one portion of such width as to constitute, when the blank is rolled up,a seat for an internal tobacco-feeding spring, another portion of suchWidth as to constitute the body of the cigarette, and still anotherportion of a width to form a contracted ignition end; substantially asdescribed.

2. A cigarette-casing blank having portions of different widths, oneportion of such width as to constitute, when the blank is rolled up, adraft-tube and guide-stem for an internal tobacco-feeding spring,another portion of such width as to constitute the seat for said spring,another portion of a width to form the body of the casing, and anotherportion of a width to form a contracted ignition end; substantially asdescribed.

3. A cigarette-cartridge, consisting of a body portion, a draft-tube andguide-stem for an internal spring, a seat for said spring, a contractedignition end, all rolled from a single blank, the said spring, and atobacco filler; substantially as described.

4.. A cigarette -cartridge, consisting of a body portion taperinginwardly from a point at or near the ignition end, a draft-tube andguide-stem for an internal spring, a seat for said spring, a contractedignition end, all rolled from a single blank, the said spring, and atobacco filler; substantially as described.

5. A cigarette-cartridge, consisting of a my hand in lphe presence oftwo subscribing body portion, a draft-tube, a seat for an in- Witnesses.

ternal sprin a contracted i 'nition end all rolled from single blank,J16 said spring, ALFREDO LEBLANO' 5 and a tobacco filler; substantiallyas de- Witnesses:

scribed. FERNANDO PoLI,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set ALBERTO OALVO.

